Two years ago, a little-known Lithuanian healthtech was revealed to be Europe’s second-fastest growing company. At the time, Kilo Health’s compound annual growth rate was estimated at 450% for the previous three years, according to the Financial Times — and it had achieved that without taking any external funding.
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